Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

June5] PROCEEDINGS. [1S94.

0 .-"O ar-enshes(?) "makes corn"(a certain quantity).

AWW*I III

No.38, l. 5, <=» ^^v ° \ X ^ ^ ^'r k.emtta ia*

Jiert,"to find the above-mentioned portion?"

PartV. —7«>h/, " Difference of Proportion "(?).

I have nothingto remark on this exceptthatthe leading word

in the first examplemustbe transcribed <^^ ^ ^K^Q .— ^-..

Book II. —Mensuration.

PI. XVI, Comnuntar, p. 93.

PartI. —Measurement of Volume, "Stereometry."

In this section the amount of grain is estimated thatcan be
stored in cylindrical andrectangularspaces of given dimensions
andvice versd. Thenamesjiaaprobablydoesnot mean a building
of any kind, but only a space. Threeof these shadin Nos. 41-43
are MfM^k O teben, " circular," another (No. 44), which is cubic is
Ij ^^ '=^' " square ;" the fifth is simply shaa,but is afterwards defined
WWW'"1 ^v J t
as ~-s 1 v\°"=^cz=> =«=»^ties su meh er meh, "ofequalsides;"

in No. 46 the shad withoutepithetis rectangular, andin No. 47

shadis opposed to C=J L73 i.e., a rectangular parallelopiped to

a cylinder.
It is clear thatshad,whichoccursonlyin this papyrus,means
ordinarilya rectangular parallelopiped,but can also be applied to
cylinderswhenqualifiedby the epithet teben.
Thedimensionsgivenin cubits are brought to cubic cubits,each
of which containsi£ khar, andthe amount is finally expressed in
hundredsof quadruple heqatat the rate of a hundred quadruple
heqatto twenty khar. See Vol. XIV,p. 422.
In No. 45, with the expression °^"\«=z>°^S " side equal to
side(?),"compare^ g <=> \ ^. "in equal quantities" in the Ebers
papyrus. Thereis a remarkable instanceof the absolute pronoun
Po in No. 46, 1. 5.
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